Necron vs Necron
(Matt vs Jack)
Witness the Planetary Doom that is an Necron Civil War - when two armies compete to harvest the same world, those who die early are the lucky ones.
Monoliths and pylons beging to warp in, both sides accumulating blast markers in their haste.
The battle would start at point blank range and continue to be fought just outside each army's control zones for the entire match.
My opponent's fleet featured the Orb, a collossal war machine that towered over my monoliths.
We were just fortunate the armies' monoliths and obelisks were different designs!
After the orb fell to a massive assault from my 600 point 'Sledgehammer' infantry formation and a monolith and obilisk maniple, the game began to move in my favour.
After that, it was a matter of taking the enemy Blitz and Take And Hold objectives, which I was able to do in style thanks to a huge amount of warriors and immortals from the large formations managing to survive the game.
The game ended 3-2, and in true Necron style neither of us had a single unit on our own side of the table and we both took Blitz and T&H!
Necrons vs Iron Warriors
Matt vs Steve (better known as Onyx)
The next opponet was Steve who had his 'Ordinatus' doom gun along for the ride - this is an amazing piece of artillery, as long as he can protect it. Here's a shot of a lot of huggy Chaos marines protecting it as Monoliths start to warp in.
Chaos deployment:
Monoliths teleport in behind cover.
For two turns combat centered around his deployment zone. I new I was sending warriors to their death, but it had to be done: All it takes is 2 casualties from the Ordinatus to break an enemy formation of 10 units - 2 from casualties, and 3 from just being shot at with such a heavy weapon. Since it kills most things on a 4+ with Macro Disrupt, that means it generally kills half of whatever the three blast templates touch and thus almost certainly insta-breaks them- very very nasty.
However it finally gives me an excuse to use one of the new smilies on Tactical Command: 
Most things that could go wrong for me in this game did; my BTS never made it back onto the board, I started turns with most things broken by blast markers or the Ordinatus' first shots, Warrior formations came through portals to assault and were broken by overwatch and pylons missed their shots. The Ordinatus managed to go through the whole game without even a blast marker on it
However, after one piece of luck in killing most of a terminator formation in assault and a complete change of plan to playing for the defensive objectives (the what? lol) I managed to steal a win out from under the Iron Warrior's noses. I honestly thought Steve would have this one in the bag.
Don't you just love objectives? 
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